Jerry Herman

The beauty of "La Cage aux Folles" has always been the fact that under the feathers and sequins, this was a musical that had a lot of heart: In the love of Georges for flamboyant Albin, in the love of Albin for the boy he helped raise, Jean-Michel.

But in the touring production of the Jerry Herman-Harvey Fierstein show, that heart is all but steamrolled by overly cartoonish characterizations and a staging that emphasizes larger-than-life antics over the smaller moments that define a family.

And the notoriously poor sound quality in the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre hit a new low at Tuesday's opening night, leaving many of leading man George Hamilton's lines...

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